The forty-nine photographs in Through Different
Eyes: The Faces of Poverty in Virginiadocument
the private lives of twenty-first-century Virginians who are living in
low-income circumstances. But they are more than that: they are
evidence that reflects not only our collective guilt as a society but
also our collective responsibility to our neighbors.
The photographers, some of whom document this world from within their
own experience, share with us images and stories that are about
dignity, hope and sometimes simple acceptance.

The
work by these photographers create visual conversations about what it
means to be poor in modern-day Virginia. While often eloquent and
lyrical, all of these images ask us to carry our conversations out of
the gallery until photographs such as these are documents of a past no
longer experienced by any citizen of the Commonwealth. -Jeffery Allison, Curator

This
exhibition is part of a statewide partnership with the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts. It was curated by Jeffrey W. Allison, and juried
by four internationally recognized photography experts: Brooks Johnson,
Tom Rankin, Robert Sullivan, and William E. Williams.